The Corning Museum of Glass will open its new exhibition "Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio" on May 16, 2026, as a major initiative of the Museum’s year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary.
Tough Stuff is the first survey exhibition of work by women artists working in glass during the breakthrough decades of the American Studio Glass Movement.
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Image: Kathleen Mulcahy installing Drops on a Landscape at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 1973. Photo courtesy of Kathleen Mulcahy.
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“Fridamania” is reaching new heights as museums, opera houses, and cinemas across continents celebrate the enduring legacy of Frida Kahlo in 2026.
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Image: Frida Kahlo Statue in Frida Kahlo Park. WikiCommons
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At Venice 2026, Wallace Chan’s "Vessels of Other Worlds" and Jewel’s "Matriclysm: An Archaeology of Connections Lost", offer a strikingly related proposition: art now functions less as critique than as a structure for survival.
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Image: Wallace Chan, Vessels of Other Worlds, Venice Rebirth sculpture. Courtesy of the artist.
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Independent's online preview is now live at independent.artnav.co
Before the fair opens on May 14, explore works by more than 100 artists from 76 galleries alongside in-depth essays, artist interviews, videos, and behind-the-scenes insights—from wherever you are.
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Following the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit (The Met Gala), with its theme of “Fashion is Art", a series of exhibitions and events is collapsing the distance between fashion and art this spring.
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Image: Valentino evening dress in the Met’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition in 2018. WikiCommons.
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Studio Shop Gallery presents "Roland Petersen at 100: A Life in Painting", a major retrospective honoring the celebrated Bay Area Figurative artist’s centennial year.
Opening Friday, May 8, with a black-tie reception celebrating Petersen’s life and legacy, the exhibition traces eight decades of artistic innovation.
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Image: Portrait shot of Petersen. Courtesy of Studio Shop Gallery. Photo by Ansel Adams.
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Since its start in 2009, Independent has been called the art world’s favorite art fair, and this year, there will be a lot more to like as it expands with a pair of major moves.
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Image: Petra Cortright, NOBLEcurve, 2025, HD digital video, music by Jacob Gryn, 11:22. Photography by Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of Interval and Independent.
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The Bruce Museum is pleased to announce "Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth", on view in the Sculpture Gallery from January 24 through June 28, 2026.
This exhibition presents a comprehensive primer of the internationally acclaimed sculptor Gisela Colón, featuring nine luminescent sculptures that explore the profound forces and energies of the natural world.
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Image: Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth installation image at The Bruce Museum, 2026. Courtesy of The Bruce Museum.
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When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened its David Geffen Galleries on April 19, visitors were met with works from vastly different cultures and centuries hung together without the hierarchies that have long shaped how Western museums arrange their collections.
LACMA’s inaugural installation in the new single-level exhibition space is instead organized around bodies of water...
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Image: A view of Los Angeles looking toward Miracle Mile where LACMA’s buildings are. WikiCommons.
In the United States, the historical formulation of the “self-taught artist” is loaded with assumptions about class, race, and mental health that have obfuscated the figure of the maker.
The exhibition "Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists", on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York through September 13th, investigates, for the first time, how formally untrained artists have depicted, conceptualized, and identified themselves on their own terms.
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Image: John Kane, John Kane and His Wife, c. 1928. “Untrained” doesn’t mean unskilled. American Folk Art Museum, New York, Collection of Frank S. Tosto.
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